AT&T Inc. plans to extend its fastest fiber-optic Internet service to 21 major cities, further ramping up competition with Google Inc. and cable providers. The largest U.S. phone company said in a statement today that it plans to expand its GigaPower...

A little less than two years ago, Google laid out plans to roll out a new lightning-fast Internet network that would make buffering and load times a thing of the past. That dreamlike service had only been available in three cities to date: Kansas Cit...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Google Fiber — Google’s Internet technology that...

Don't worry about the Comcast deal. Be happy. Yes, the cable giant's $45 billion bid to take over Time Warner makes an uncompetitive cable industry worse. Yes, Comcast will now have a disproportionate control of Internet service in major U.S. markets...

Google took home the Advertiser of the Year trophy this week during the 54th annual Clio Awards -- the Oscars for advertising professionals -- on the strength of ad campaigns for such projects as Build with Chrome, 100,000 Stars, Re:Brief, Google Dis...

Gladstone, Missouri is the next city to get Google's ultra-fast broadband service, Google Fiber. The news comes days after Google announced Fiber would be coming to the tiny town of Shawnee, Kansas. Google has also added Austin, Texas, and Provo, Uta...

Google continues to expand its Google Fiber service to more cities, adding a small city in Kansas to the lucky places slated to get the search giant's ultrafast broadband connections. The city council in Shawnee, Kansas -- population just upward of 6...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Provo, Utah, will be the third U.S. city to get ...

The city of Provo, Utah, had a mystery announcement scheduled for today, and now we know what it is: It's the next city to get Google Fiber. The news, posted on the official site of Provo, has been confirmed by Google, which has listed Provo as one o...

Google Fiber TV customers won't have to look elsewhere for their Game of Thrones fix anymore, as Google has just added HBO and Cinemax channels to its TV lineup. For $20 per month (tax not included), customers will be able to add an HBO package to th...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Google has confirmed Austin, Texas as the next s...

Google Fiber, Google's ultrafast broadband Internet service, is coming to your city -- if you happen to live in Olathe, Kansas. Google announced the expansion plans in a blog post Tuesday evening minutes after they were approved by the Olathe City Co...

In the 21st century, a small business in Kansas City, Mo., has at least one very important thing in common with a small business in Seoul, Korea: Both have access to ultra high-speed Internet -- Kansas City via Google Fiber and Seoul on account of it...

Google, in an expansion of its role as an Internet Service Provider, introduced Tuesday New York City's biggest contiguous free public Wi-Fi network in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Google's choice of location for the giant network is no sur...

Google's effort to install a blazingly fast, gigabit-per-second fiber Internet service in the two-state metropolis of Kansas City -- a speed 100 times faster than the national average -- is a radical new business direction for the company, and perhap...

Following months of building a new infrastructure from the ground up, Google has officially started connecting homes in Kansas City to its new lightning-fast Google Fiber network. The first town to receive Google Fiber is Hanover Heights, Kan., the c...

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